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Plot Summary:
A cynical experienced homicide detective based in Marseilles, France is crippled in the line of duty and depends on a wheelchair to get around. He is accompanied by a young ,vivacious female detective who's been forced on him to train as a condition of his ability to continue to work as a field detective.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, intellectual, suspenseful, detective
Best tv shows and movies like Cain (2012):
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Sherlock: The Russian Chronicles (2020)
Plot Summary:
Sherlock Holmes follows the trail of Jack the Ripper, who slashed several women in London and left a special message for the detective on each of the murder sites, leading Sherlock to the Russian Empire. Holmes' reputation as a talented crime solver hasn't yet reached St. Petersburg, so no one takes the London detective, or his deductions, seriously. Holmes rents a room at Dr. Kartsev's who eventually becomes his assistant. Together they solve crimes, even when the local police acts against them.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: captivating, detective, psychological, suspenseful, witty, stylized
Similar in 79%
Detective L (2019)
Plot Summary:
Shanghai in 30s: An intriguing crime case emerges amidst the bustling city. A beautiful new graduate of police academy, Qin Xiaoman, joins the investigation unit. The famous detective Luo Fei becomes her colleague and neighbour.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, captivating
Similar in 81%
Amazing Detective Di Renjie (2004)
Plot Summary:
Di Renjie is Tang dynasty magistrate and statesman, who investigates mysterious murders.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, cynical, costume drama
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Super Jimmy (2019)
Plot Summary:
Police captain Déa Versini works with Jimmy. They are inseparable and have formed a perfect partnership on the streets. There is no case they can’t crack! But their relationship is shaken up by the arrival of a new lieutenant, Matthieu Belcourt. Is it possible for them to work as a trio? Unlikely… given that Jimmy is Déa’s imaginary friend!.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: semi serious, thought provoking, witty, clever, touching, captivating
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Phantom Detective (2016)
Plot Summary:
HONG Gildong is an infallible private detective with an exceptional memory and quirky personality. While chasing the only target he failed to find, he gets entangled in a much bigger conspiracy than he bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: psychological, intellectual, captivating, suspenseful, intense, neo noir, crime drama
Similar in 85%
Bancroft (2017)
Plot Summary:
A dark and compelling thriller centering on Detective Superintendent Elizabeth Bancroft, a female detective with an explosive secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, exciting, intellectual, captivating, hardboiled detective, psychological, detective series
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Innocent (2017)
Plot Summary:
Cevdet, a retired commissioner, and his wife spend their pensions in peace on a farm away from the city. Suddenly the life of the family is destroyed by the sudden arrival of a terrible news from the little son.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, detective, psychological thriller, surprise ending
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Queens of Mystery (2019)
Plot Summary:
Matilda Stone is a perennially single female detective whose three aunts are well-known crime writers that help her solve whodunit style murders as well as set her up on blind dates.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, clever, intellectual, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, psychological, exciting
Similar in 89%
Jericho (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jericho is an ITV British crime drama series which was transmitted in 2005. It was created and written by Stewart Harcourt and starred Robert Lindsay as Detective Inspector Michael Jericho, who is loved by the public but who is embarrassed by his status as a hero. The series was set in London in 1958. The series was shown in the United States in 2006 and 2007 as part of the PBS Mystery! series and by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2008.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: intellectual, psychological, exciting, captivating, detective, odd, detective series
Similar in 76%
Bordertown (2016)
Plot Summary:
Peculiar detective Kari Sorjonen escapes the hustle and bustle of big city to a small border town.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Finland, France
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, noir, captivating, enigmatic, suspense, atmospheric, dark, crime drama, gloomy
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Five Days (2007)
Plot Summary:
Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, captivating, psychological, exciting, suspense, tense, bleak, detective
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Maigret (1991)
Plot Summary:
The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: clever, captivating, stylized, detective, exciting, witty
Similar in 84%
Professor T. (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jasper Teerlinck, an eccentric professor, is an adviser to the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, suspenseful
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Dr. Frost (2014)
Plot Summary:
Baek Nam Bong (Song Chang Ui) is known as Dr. Frost. He became a professor in psychology at early age. He is extremely bright, but he has difficulties sympathizing with others due to an injury to his frontal lobe as a child. During the day, he now works as a counselor at the campus counseling center and at night he works as a bartender. He then begins to work with a teaching assistant, Yoon Sung Ah (Jung Eun Chae) at the counseling center. Yoon Sung Ah is enthusiastic with the clients needing counseling. They work together to solve problems who go there for help.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, clever, intellectual, captivating, witty, odd
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Miss S (2020)
Plot Summary:
Set in the Shanghai Bund in the 1940s, it revolves around a female detective who solve multiple cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, clever, captivating, witty, stylized
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Nero Wolfe (2012)
Plot Summary:
Interesting modern actualization made by Italian broadcasting service (RAI) of immortal, well-known characters created by the genial American novelist Rex Stout.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, intellectual, captivating, witty, stylized, detective series
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Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018)
Plot Summary:
In 1926, with her personal life in tatters and her writing in crisis, a young Agatha Christie decides to solve a real-life murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, intellectual, captivating, realistic, slasher, suspense thriller
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Rosewood (2015)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Beaumont Rosewood, Jr. is a brilliant private pathologist who uses wildly sophisticated technology and his drive to live life to the fullest to help a tough-as-nails detective and the Miami PD uncover clues no one else can see.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, philosophical, serious, cliffhanger, detective
Similar in 86%
Murders in... (2013)
Plot Summary:
Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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Suspects (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in London, each episode is a self-contained story, starting with a news report, then following the team of three detectives as they investigate the circumstances the crime. The cases themselves are hard-hitting with contemporary themes, such as the search for a soldier with PTSD, a murder that has been made to look like an assisted suicide and the gang rape of a young teenager.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, crime drama
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Taggart (1983)
Plot Summary:
Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network. The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde Police, though various storylines have happened in other parts of the Greater Glasgow area, and as of the most recent series the team have operated out of the fictional John Street police station across the street from the City Chambers. It is one of the UK's longest-running dramas and is the longest-running police drama after the cancellation of The Bill. The show's 100th story aired on Christmas Eve 2009 on the ITV network. In May 2011, it was reported that the ITV network had decided to axe Taggart from the network after 28 years. The series may continue to be screened in Scotland on the STV network and on overseas broadcasters.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: detective, crime drama, tense, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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The Disappearance (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in Lyon, the show traces the increasing trauma of the Morel family who fall apart when their 17-year-old daughter fails to return home from a night out. As the hours pass and the police investigation builds, The Disappearance explores every parent’s worst nightmare. There are similarities to Broadchurch in that the lead detective has a complicated backstory while the family members and friends each appear to be hiding something.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, detective, tense, serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, atmospheric, noir
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The Forest (2017)
Plot Summary:
In a small quiet village in the Ardennes, a sixteen-year-old girl disappears into the forest after calling her teacher in the middle of the night. Captain Gaspard Deker, a former soldier and newly arrived single father is conducting the investigation with Virginie Musso, the local cop. Also helping is the teacher, Eve Mendel, a solitary young woman with a mysterious past: she was found as a child by the villiage doctor wandering silently in the same forest.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 313 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, twist ending, dark, psychological, atmospheric, mysterious, detective
Similar in 79%
Steppe (2018)
Plot Summary:
Experienced chief of police Seyfi and newbie officer Nuri Pamir start to investigate the case of a child murder taking place in the city. The case brings them to Mr. Abbas and his daughter Dilara, who are well-known individuals in their circles.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, detective
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Van der Valk (2020)
Plot Summary:
Set against the backdrop of the city of Amsterdam, Piet Van der Valk and his team investigate a series of high-profile cases immersed in the worlds of art, politics, addiction, mysticism and the fashion industry.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, intellectual, captivating, disturbing, detective
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River (2015)
Plot Summary:
John River, a brilliant police officer whose genius and fault-line is the fragility of his mind - a man haunted by the murder victims whose cases he must lay to rest.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, detective, crime drama, surprise ending, melancholic, atmospheric, enigmatic, tense, captivating
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Identity (2010)
Plot Summary:
Identity is a British police procedural drama television series starring Aidan Gillen and Keeley Hawes, airing in the UK during July–August 2010. Concerning identity theft, the series was created and written by Ed Whitmore, a writer most noted for his work on the BBC's Waking The Dead and the acclaimed ITV mini-series He Kills Coppers. The remake rights have been sold to the ABC Network in America who are developing their own version of the show. ITV confirmed that the show had been cancelled on 19 October 2010, after a single series.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, detective, crime drama, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy
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Truth Be Told (2019)
Plot Summary:
Descend into the world of true-crime podcasts. New evidence compels podcaster Poppy Parnell to reopen the murder case that made her a media sensation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, captivating, psychological thriller, intellectual, suspenseful, detective
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Watson, finds a mystery in an empty house, while Holmes and he later solve the mysteries of an abbey grange, the Musgrave ritual, a second stain, a man with a twisted lip, the priory school, and a half-dozen plaster busts of Bonaparte.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, gothic, spiritual, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama
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Sherlock (2010)
Plot Summary:
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 977000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: clever, detective, witty, captivating, serious, exciting, mind bending, psychological, intellectual, suspenseful